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Mitch PerryOctober 7, 2016
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Earlier this week, Dover Republican Ross Spano reached out to his Democratic challenger in the House District 59 race, Brandon Democrat Rena Frazier, requesting she sign a pledge he had drawn up calling for the two to promise to run a clean campaign in the last month of the election. Frazier didn’t respond, and in an email sent to FloridaPolitics, calls […]

Mitch PerryOctober 7, 2016
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The Charlie Crist–David Jolly matchup is one of the most keenly observed congressional races in the country. And while the two continue to engage in strong partisan rhetoric against each other, they did come together in common cause this week in calling on Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections Deborah Clark to expand the number of early voting sites. However, Clark still […]

Mitch PerryOctober 6, 2016
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Beverly Young announced Thursday she’s voting for Charlie Crist over David Jolly in Florida’s 13th Congressional District. Young made the announcement by placing a photo of her ballot on her Facebook page showing she had scribbled the bubble next to Crist’s name. Young is the widow of Bill Young, who represented Pinellas County in Congress for more than 42 years before he died three […]

Mitch PerryOctober 6, 2016
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According to a new poll commissioned by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), Charlie Crist is leading David Jolly in Florida’s 13th Congressional District, 50 percent to 39 percent, with 11 percent undecided. According to the pollsters, Jolly’s favorability ratings have shrunk by nine percentage points over the past month. The new survey has him at 41 percent favorable/27 percent unfavorable, […]

Mitch PerryOctober 5, 2016
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Shortly after the midterm elections in 2014, Secretary of State Ken Detzner said at least 30 of Florida’s 67 counties might need new equipment or upgrades, though he declined to name the counties. Now his office says there has been tremendous improvement in modernizing voting equipment. “Working with supervisors of elections to help counties modernize their voting systems is one […]

Mitch PerryOctober 5, 2016
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Charlie Crist, Rick Kriseman and Pinellas Democrats gained a new ally on Wednesday in their request for an additional early voting station in the southern part of the county — Republican Congressman David Jolly. In a letter penned to Supervisor of Elections Deborah Clark, the GOP incumbent in Congressional District 13 says he is writing to ask that “your […]

Mitch PerryOctober 5, 2016
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Richard Trumka was in Tampa Tuesday. The AFL-CIO president made an appearance in front of Sen. Marco Rubio’s Tampa district office, criticizing his stance on Social Security and other issues. Florida is one of seven states the 12-million-plus member labor organization is targeting in this fall’s election, in both the presidential race, and the U.S. Senate race between […]


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